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292 pp. Hardcover
Mystery/Thriller
A Blood Red Morning
Mark Pryor

Henri Lefort Mysteries Book #3

In this unputdownable WWII series, Paris detective Henri Lefort, must solve a complex case when a man is murdered on the policeman's own doorstep.

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239 pp. Hardcover
Mystery/Thriller
Dead Sweet
Katrín Júlíusdóttir

When a celebrated government official is found dead after his surprise birthday party, a young police officer uncovers a terrifying world of financial crime, sinister cults and disturbing secret lives. Icelandic politician Katrín Júlíusdóttir's award-winning, breathtaking debut, and first in a chilling series.

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307 pp. Hardcover
Mystery/Thriller
Death at the Sign of the Rook
Kate Atkinson

A Jackson Brodie Book #6

The highly anticipated return of "irresistible" (New York Timesprivate eye Jackson Brodie in the newest installment of the bestselling series hailed as "unputdownable" by Time.

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480 pp. Hardcover
Mystery/Thriller
A Death in Cornwall
Daniel Silva

#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another stunning thriller in his action-packed tale of high stakes international intrigue.

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325 pp. Hardcover
Mystery/Thriller
Farewell, Amethystine
Walter Mosley

Book #16

From “master of the genre” (Washington Post) Walter Mosley, Detective Easy Rawlins’ latest client sends him down a warren of memory and nostalgia—blinding him to reason and risk.

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314 pp. Hardcover
Mystery/Thriller
Fire with Fire
Candice Fox

A pair of desperate parents. A man on the run. A rookie cop. Four people with everything on the line. What will be left in the ashes of the next 24 hours?

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256 pp. Hardcover
Mystery/Thriller
The Ghost Cat
Alex Howard

A charming novel for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and How to Stop Time, following a cat through his nine lives in Edinburgh, moving through the ever-changing city and meeting its inhabitants over centuries.

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478 pp. Hardcover
Mystery/Thriller
The God of the Woods
Liz Moore

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide.

New York Times Bestseller

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406 pp. Hardcover
Mystery/Thriller
Golden Age Whodunits
Otto Penzler

In this volume, Edgar Award–winning anthologist Otto Penzler collects some of the finest American whodunits of the era, including household names and welcome rediscoveries. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ellery Queen, and Mary Roberts Rinehart are all included, as are Ring Lardner, Melville Davisson Post, and Helen Reilly. The result is a cross section of the whodunit tale in the years that made it a staple in mystery fiction.

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211 pp. Hardcover
Mystery/Thriller
The Guests
Agnes Ravatn

A married couple borrows a luxurious home on the Norwegian fjords, entangling themselves in a web of lies when they pretend to be the owners. Chilling, darkly funny psychological suspense by the author of The Bird Tribunal.

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353 pp. Hardcover
Mystery/Thriller
Guiltless
Viveca Sten

Sandhamn Murders Book #3

The tiny Swedish island of Sandhamn has always been a haven for lawyer Nora Linde. With trouble brewing in her marriage, she finds its comforts more welcome than ever, even in the depths of winter. That is, until her two young sons trip across a severed arm in the woods.

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394 pp. Hardcover
Mystery/Thriller
Murder Book
Thomas Perry

An ex-cop takes on a widespread criminal organization targeting Midwestern towns in this "master class in the craft of suspense" (New York Times) from the author of The Old Man.

A Macavity Award Nominee

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390 pp. Hardcover
Mystery/Thriller
Not What She Seems
Yasmin Angoe

She left home as the local pariah at twenty-two, but when a family tragedy brings her back, she must confront her tortured past—and a new danger in town that no one seems to understand but her.

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277 pp. Hardcover
Mystery/Thriller
A Refiner’s Fire
Donna Leon

The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries Book #33. Commissario Guido Brunetti confronts a present-day Venetian menace and the ghosts of a heroism that never was.

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373 pp. Hardcover
Mystery/Thriller
The Resort
Sara Ochs

For readers of Rachel Hawkins and We Were Never Here comes a searing vacation thriller set on a remote island in Thailand following two mysterious women, a charismatic group of expats, and the one murder poised to bring their paradise crashing down.

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237 pp. Hardcover
Mystery/Thriller
Safe Enough
Lee Child

Twenty crime stories by the creator of Jack Reacher, never before collected.

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388 pp. Hardcover
Mystery/Thriller
Talking to Strangers
Fiona Barton

Detective Elise King’s investigation into a woman’s murder is getting derailed by a reporter who insists on doing her own investigation in this nail-biting mystery from the author of Local Gone Missing.

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402 pp. Hardcover
Mystery/Thriller
Tonight You're Dead
Viveca Sten

Sandhamn Murders Book #4

Soon to be divorced, attorney Nora Linde is finding her way as a single mother, and even falling in love again, when she’s asked by her childhood friend Detective Thomas Andreasson to help in a disturbing investigation.

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244 pp. Hardcover
Mystery/Thriller
Wordhunter
Stella Sands

An utterly original and compulsively readable detective story about a woman who uses her uncanny ability to analyze words and speech patterns to help solve crimes.

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340 pp. Hardcover
Mystery/Thriller
A World of Hurt
Mindy Mejia

When someone dies to save your life, how do you ever forgive them?

A World of Hurt is Mindy Mejia's highly anticipated follow-up to the “propulsive” USA Today bestselling thriller To Catch a Storm where an Iowa City police officer and a DEA informant must work together to hunt down the remains of a hidden drug empire.

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381 pp. Hardcover
Mystery/Thriller
The Wrong Hands
Mark Billingham

Detective Miller Novels Book #2

The second rip-roaring mystery from multi-award-winning international bestseller Mark Billingham starring Detective Miller: unique, unconventional, and criminally underestimated...

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